Monday, May 5, 2014

Friend Making Monday

Alright, Friday I ran 4
miles…it was alright.

Saturday was national scrapbooking day so I spent the day with my friend
Amanda.We went shopping at craft stores,
went to Home Depot where I bought some spray primer paint for the horns I’ve
been planning to make, then we hit up this local café called Baked & Sconed
and got these amazing croissant paninnis with goat cheese and fig jam, chicken
and spinach.Omg, so divine.Quite possibly the best tasting anything I’ve
ever eaten.Then we went back to her
house and commenced the scrapbooking fun.I scrapbooked my postcards.The album
is now so big, I will have to make a second album for my postcards.I still have some empty pages, but once those
are filled up, that’s it for that album and onto a second one.

I didn’t exercise on Saturday
at all.I was thinking maybe I’d go for
a bike ride or do the jump box workout, but I didn’t do either.I really need to work on my motivation to do
other exercise than running.If I want
to drop the weight, I NEED to do it.

Yesterday I met with my
friend Denise and her hubby for lunch.We
were originally supposed to drive up to Canton, TX and go to the largest flea
market in Texas that happens there on the first Sunday of each month.However, a couple weeks ago, he had a mini
stroke (also called a TIA).He still has
some lingering short term memory issues and he’s still weak and gets tired
easily and faster than before, so going to a flea market and walking around for
hours just wasn’t a good idea.I was
perfectly fine with that because Rick’s health is more important than
shopping.Especially since it happens
the first Sunday of every month and we can just go some other time.We went to the Chinese buffet for lunch and
it was good, as always.Then we went
back to their house and watched some TV.After that, I left and went to Walmart where I bought some pink seat
covers for my car (I’m tired of being burned when I sit on my vinyl seats…and
tired of sticking to them if I’m wearing a skirt or shorts).I also bought some copper spray paint for the
horn making.Then, I went across the
parking lot and went to Ross.I bought a
dress there…a dress I will probably wear to the association Christmas party
(haha…it’s May and I’m buying Christmas party dresses!!!).Then, I went back home and proceeded to work
on the horns.They look pretty good, but
I still need to affix them to a headband so they can be worn with my dryad
costume I’m going to make to wear at the Texas Renaissance Festival this fall.

OH!Speaking of the Texas Renaissance Festival,
they had a sale on their tickets on Saturday, so I bought 3.I plan to camp one weekend with a bunch of
friends, so I got 2 tickets for that weekend, plus I’m sure I’ll go one other
day, that’s why I got the third ticket.I
probably will not be attending the Scarborough Festival that is going on right
now in Waxahachie, TX.I have something
going on every weekend this month and I’d rather save my money for my trip to Oregon
next month.

I ran yesterday, my long run
for the week.I had said a week or so
ago that I wanted to do 6 yesterday, 8 on the 11th, 10 on the 18th
and 11.5 on the 25th.Then, I’ll
taper for the half marathon I’m running in Oregon on June 7th.So, I went to map my route out for last night
on MapMyRun.I meant to do 6.5 miles,
but brain farted and did it for 5.5 instead.I didn’t realize my mistake until I had shut down the computer and
walked out the front door.I was going
to head back in and redo it, but I didn’t want to waste the time it would take
to do that, so I just added the part of the route that I forgot to include when
I mapped it out.My run went from 5.5
miles to 7.1 miles.And it was a
fabulous 7.1 miles too!I felt super
strong for about 85% of the run.The other
15% was the 2 miles that were 11:00 minutes or more.Other than those 2 miles, all my miles were
between 10:22 and 10:46.Awesome!

And now it's time for Friend Making Monday!

Colors

1. When you look out
of your nearest window - what is the first color you see?
green…there’s a tree that just naturally draws my eyes to it when I look out
the window.

2. How colorful was
your last meal?
the last meal I ate was noodles, so not very colorful at all.

3. What color is your car/bike/main mode of transport?

Yellow…I drive a
yellow VW new beetle and I love her.My bicycle
is black, grey and red…but it’s only occasionally my mode of transport.

4. What color clothes
are you wearing?

Yellow and teal

5. If you have pets - what color are they?

I have 2 cats, 1
black, 1 orange

6. What color is your
hair?it’s a dark blonde with some red highlights